About Notion
En historie om værktøjer og fremtidens arbejde
Hi there! If you're reading this, you're probably like me—spending most of your days in your office, in front of a computer.
Du har sandsynligvis femten faner åbne: en til e-mail, en til Slack, en til Google Docs og så videre og så videre ...Men har du nogensinde tænkt over, hvor disse "arbejdsværktøjer" kom fra? Eller hvorfor der er så mange af dem?For at besvare disse spørgsmål og forklare, hvorfor vi skabte Notion, er vi nødt til at rejse tilbage i tiden.
As people flooded to factories during the Industrial Revolution, many tools were invented to ease the management overload.Typewriters replaced illegible handwriting. File cabinets stored more information than any clerk could remember (and also won the gold medal at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair!)Tools like these paved the way for offices as we know them today.
Spol frem til 1950'erne, hvor computere kom ind på arbejdspladsen.Først var de livløse monstre, som fyldte hele rummet og fungerede på papir og hulkort. De blev udelukkende brugt til beregninger.
Then something magical happened in the 1970s!A generation of pioneers saw the computer as something far beyond a number-crunching machine. They dreamt a future where computers could amplify imagination (Alan Kay), augment intellect (Doug Engelbart), and expand our thoughts far beyond text on paper (Ted Nelson).A tool unlike anything we have seen before.
Men sådan gik det ikke. Ifølge legenden gik der mange subtile, men afgørende forskelle tabt, da Steve Jobs "lånte" idéerne bag personlige computere fra Xerox PARC. Tryk på play og lyt til manden selv.
And that's where we are today.Google Docs made typewriters multiplayer. Dropbox brought file cabinets to the cloud. But conceptually, they evolved little beyond their Industrial Revolution ancestors.We duct-tape everything together with emails, copy/paste, and countless open tabs.
Det er her, Notion kommer ind i billedet. Vi ønsker at bryde med nutidens værktøjer – og bringe nogle af ideerne fra disse tidlige pionerer tilbage.Som et første skridt blander vi meget af din arbejdsgang i et alt-i-et-arbejdsområde. Vil du have en opgaveliste? En produktkøreplan? Et designlager? De er nu alle samlet ét sted. Du kan endda tilpasse dit eget arbejdsområde fra dusinvis af LEGO-lignende byggeklodser.Løs dine problemer på din måde, kun afgrænset af din fantasi.
Hopefully you've gotten a good sense of why we started Notion. Challenging the status quo is not an easy task. Check out the product! Write in! We need early adopters like you to start a movement. See you soon!
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay, computerpioner
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Vores investorer
Shana Fisher
Investor in Pinterest, Stripe, Hackpad, Paper/FiftyThree.
Naval Ravikant
Founder of AngelList. Investor in Twitter, Uber, Yammer.
Ram Shriram
Partner at Sherpalo Ventures. Investor and board member of Google.
Josh Kopelman
Partner at First Round Capital. Investor in Uber, LinkedIn.
Phin Barnes
Partner at First Round Capital. Investor in Blue Apron, Clearbit.
Aydin Senkut
Partner hos Felicis Ventures. Investor i Shopify, Fitbit.
Matt Macinnis
Founder of Inkling. Investor in Clever, Zenefits.
Elad Gil
Ex-VP at Twitter. Investor in Airbnb, Stripe, Square, Pinterest.
Mike Vernal
Partner i Sequoia Capital. Tidligere vicedirektør for platform hos Facebook.
Ronny Conway
Partner at ACapital. Investor in Pinterest, Reddit, Coinbase.
Lachy Groom
Early employee at Stripe. Investor in Figma, Front, Superhuman.
Daniel Gross
Founder of Pioneer. Ex-founder of Cue. Ex-Partner at Y-Combinator.
Sarah Cannon
Partner at Index Ventures. Ex-policy adviser of the White House.
Caryn Marooney
Ex-VP of Communications at Facebook. Board member of Zendesk, Elastic.